Taiwan top three solar cell makers report increasing April revenues
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Motech, Gintech, and Neo Solar Power (NSP) saw April revenues increase on month.
Last update: Friday 11 May 2012
Taiwan IC distributors mixed on 2Q12 outlook
Taiwan-based IC distributors have mixed outlooks for the second quarter of 2012. WPG has expressed optimism predicting components for smartphones sold in China will drive company sales, while WT Microelectronics and Weikeng...
Last update: Friday 4 May 2012
Makers move to avoid China LCD tariffs
China raised tariffs for LCD panels on April 1, 2012. Both local and foreign makers in the supply chain are taking steps to avoid the tariffs.
Last update: Friday 4 May 2012
Problems with solar material supply contracts
Taiwan-based solar firms have been facing problems caused by long-term solar material contracts
Last update: Thursday 3 May 2012
China has become the biggest TV market in the world. Its local brands, such as TCL, are posing strong challenges to foreign competitors.
Last update: Thursday 3 May 2012
Demand for LED-backlit LCD TVs has been growing, but CCFL models aren't going away without a fight.
Last update: Wednesday 2 May 2012
LCD panel makers bottoming out?
Taiwan's LCD panel makers saw business improve in 1Q12. But does it mean that their miseries are coming to an end?
Last update: Wednesday 2 May 2012
LED lighting firms report mixed financial reports
LED lighting firms in Taiwan reported mixed first-quarter 2012 financial reports
Last update: Wednesday 2 May 2012
LED and display makers hope OLED products to be the next winner
Last update: Monday 30 April 2012
Executives from solar firms provide their insights to the industry
Last update: Monday 30 April 2012
April solar spot prices brought to you by Digitimes Research
Digitimes Research provided April solar spot prices in Greater China region
Last update: Friday 27 April 2012
Taiwan energy price hike causes stirs among industries
Taiwan government planned to increase energy price all at once on May 15 which has been causing stirs in different industries
Last update: Friday 27 April 2012
The LED opportunity in the Taiwan market
The Taiwan government's moves to raise energy prices are sending people adopting power-efficient devices, such as LED lights.
Last update: Friday 27 April 2012
Fluctuating fate of ultrabooks
Although notebook vendors were optimistic about the demand for ultrabooks, Acer's change in its ultrabook strategy is expected to bring more fluctuation to the ultrabook market.
Last update: Friday 27 April 2012
Digitimes provides insights to the solar market
Last update: Friday 27 April 2012
Glass fiber reinforced plastic chassis becomes a hot pick for ultrabook
Ultrabook vendors have started to turn to adopt glass fiber reinforced plastic chassis for their ultrabook since the supply of metal chassis is limited, while cost of producing metal chassis is also a lot higer.
Last update: Monday 16 April 2012
China solar industry dominates the news
There have been plenty of news from China's solar industry
Last update: Monday 16 April 2012
SAS completes quest for Covalent
Taiwan-based solar wafer firm Sino-American Silicon (SAS) completes acquisition of Japan-based semiconductor firm Covalent
Last update: Monday 16 April 2012
Push for advanced process capacity expansion
TSMC has revealed plans to expand capacity for 28nm processes, and to start making 20nm chips ahead of schedule. Fellow firm UMC will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for new factory buildings (Phase 5 and 6) at its Fab 12A...
Last update: Tuesday 10 April 2012
Rising China smartphone vendors
China-based vendors, such as Huawei and ZTE, are expanding their presence in the global smartphone market.
Last update: Monday 9 April 2012
Taiwan to enjoy salary raise in July
Several IT players have recently announced plans to raise the salary of their Taiwan employees in July to help aiding the increasing gasoline and electrictiy prices.
Last update: Friday 6 April 2012
With DRAM prices having slid as low as some manufacturer's costs, less-competitive firms are exploring various options to preserve cash and improve their financial structures. In the meantime, the growing supply-demand...
Last update: Thursday 5 April 2012
Intel to push 7 series for the motherboard market
Intel is set to launch its latest 7 series motherboard in early April with the related vendors already started selling their products in the retail channel.
Last update: Monday 2 April 2012
All eyes on China's smartphone market
Brand vendors and chip solution suppliers are gearing up for China's promising smartphone market. Their aggressiveness is changing the ecosystem of the country's overall handset market.
Last update: Thursday 29 March 2012
The LCD industry is undergoing a major consolidation with Foxconn investing in Sharp.
Last update: Thursday 29 March 2012
Germany and Italy to curb solar installations
The two largest solar markets in the world, Germany and Italy, hope to curb solar installations by making drastic cuts to incentives
Last update: Wednesday 28 March 2012
US vs China solar firms round 2
US government announced a 5% tariff on China-made solar modules imported to the country
Last update: Monday 26 March 2012
March weekly solar spot price by Digitimes Research
March weekly spot price of solar products in Greater China region brought to you by Digitimes Research
Last update: Friday 23 March 2012
Retail channel business in Taiwan
Foxconn has been aggressive entering Taiwan's retail channel and in addition to its Taipei IT Mall project, the company also reportedly to establish an IT shopping mall in Taoyuan, Taiwan
Last update: Friday 23 March 2012
Chassis becomes hot in the PC industry
As ultrabook and tablet PC vendors are pushing their devices to feature thinner size, demands for chassis have increased greatly, causing big shortage in the upsteram supply chain.
Last update: Thursday 22 March 2012
As cloud computing becomes the new trend of the IT industry, CPU players Intel and AMD have both been aggressive launching products to catch up with the demand
Last update: Tuesday 20 March 2012
Packaging and testing firms see sales bottom in 1Q12
Major Taiwan-based IC packaging and testing houses including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), Silicon Precision Industries (SPIL), Powertech Technology (PTI) and Walton Advanced Engineering all expect sales to...
Last update: Friday 16 March 2012
The new iPad and the world of tablets
Apple has announced its new iPad and more tablet PCs are coming from competitors.
Last update: Thursday 8 March 2012
With all eyes fixed on tablet devices, what will become of e-book readers and the e-paper with which they are built?
Last update: Thursday 8 March 2012
AMD with aggressive acts over investments and product launch
AMD has recently announced several new investment plans as well as products launch, showing the company's aggressiveness toward the IT industry.
Last update: Tuesday 6 March 2012
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- Imagination says third party IP becoming a key driving force for silicon vendors
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- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
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2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
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Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...
Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...
MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...
Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.